Ealhswith

Ealhswith (died 5 December 902) was the Queen of Wessex as the wife of Alfred the Great.

Biogarphy
Ealhswith was the daughter of the Mercian ealdorman Aethelred Mucel, and she was married to Prince Alfred of Wessex at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in 868. As a prince, Alfred was unfaithful to Ealhswith, having an affair with one of his servant girls. However, on Alfred's death in 899, he willed Edington in Wiltshire (the site of the Battle of Edington), Lambourn in Berkshire (the site of another one of his victories), and his birthplace of Wantage to Ealhswith, and she founded the convent of St. Mary's Abbey in Winchester after his death. She died in 902.